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Ummaromana Sama
Ummaromana Sama

Reputation: 85

How to uninstall python 2.7 from terminal?

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I have been having issues with installing things in the terminal Python related like: https://github.com/RomelTorres/alpha_vantage

I did try to uninstall python and install Python 3.8.2 but when I do "python --version" I get Python 2.7.16.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3252

Answers (1)

XPhyro
XPhyro

Reputation: 528

You probably do not have to uninstall it, instead of using the keyword python, try python3. python3 --version will most likely give the version 3.8.2 if you have it installed. On most Linux distributions, and I'm assuming on macOS too, python refers to Python 2 instead of Python 3 for backwards compatibility, so you have to explicitly tell it to use Python 3.

Upvotes: 2

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